Movie Review: "Epic" a Big War of Good Versus Evil

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Stephen Holden

Queen Tara (Beyonce) selecting the seedling to continue protecting the forest.

HOLLYWOOD---As you watch its characters zoom through a lush forest on the backs of hummingbirds, the gorgeous 3-D adventure comedy “Epic” suggests a warmer, fuzzier “Avatar,” with a green heart. Directed by Chris Wedge, the movie is a hymn to nature rendered in phantasmagoric detail as refined as anything I’ve seen in a computer-animated family film. [link] (A&O Rating: ★★)